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Chandra has over 15 years of experience as a Software Architect and leader in product development in Silicon Valley, Chicago, and India. He has helped design and build software products for Cisco Systems as well as several startups, and is now trying to grow his own startup in the mobile space. Chandra's expertise is in cloud computing, security, and networking applications. Click to continue

Justin is a full-stack developer with extensive experience in Ruby on Rails, React (including React Native), Java, SQL (MySQL and Postgres), and NoSQL (HBase, Solr, and Elasticsearch). He has also practiced software architecture skills that have been honed on professional and personal projects. Click to continue

Patrick has been a developer for over a decade now. First as a sole developer, then working on a growing Java team, and eventually leading two small teams within a larger organization. Most recently, he has designed and wrote a subscription-based web application for health practitioners. He is comfortable working with teams of any size, communicates very well, loves learning new skills, and tackling new challenges. Click to continue

Mikalai is a consultant and technical leader with over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked for major clients such as API Outsourcing, CobornsDelivers, and NMDP. His background includes extensive hands-on development, providing specific technical solutions, and working on international teams. Click to continue

Tin is a CS degree holder, certificated as a design analyst, data processing, and information systems analyst as well as Cisco CCNA. He's been working for over six years on web development environments, with over a hundred website projects under his belt as both as a freelancer and as a contracted developer. He has extensive experience with WordPress (themes and plugins). Click to continue

Joe is a Java application developer with over six years of experience working with enterprise and small-scale applications. He is well versed in relational databases, application servers, REST APIs, and testing. Click to continue

Chris is a hands-on architect + developer with many years of experience with companies large and small. Proven record of customer satisfaction, efficiency, and solution longevity. Experienced with a variety of languages and tools and comfortable solo, as a team member, or as a group lead/mentor. Click to continue

Esteban is a developer with 10 years of experience specializing in Java and related technologies. He has developed full-scale web applications as well as back-end systems and business logic. Esteban is eager to help, proficient in his work and work-ethic, and fits in well with teams of all sizes. Click to continue

Tom is a hands-on software developer with 17 years of JavaScript and web development experience. He also has ES6 experience and has worked with popular JavaScript front and and back-end frameworks. Click to continue

As a results-driven, agile software engineer, Josh focuses on implementing high-quality code. He is thorough with details, iteratively driving projects to completion. He is equally comfortable owning an entire project or dividing the work across a team. He regularly contributes to all phases of the software development life cycle. Click to continue

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“Toptal provides a great service: Within a week of posting my job, I was matched with my developer and ended up completing the entire project with him. I'll continue to use Toptal in the future for any new development work I may need.”

Mike Jones

CEO @ DigitalDripped

“Toptal is amazing. Sourcing and interviewing candidates has always been incredibly cumbersome and difficult - and usually takes weeks or months to find the right people. With Toptal, we had 5 candidates in 2 days that were all perfect for the job. They made the scheduling of interviews easy and straightforward and we were working with a top-level developer within 2 weeks. I love you, Toptal.”

Ian Fosbery

CTO @ NMRKT

“Robert was such a breath of fresh air. He was an excellent communicator and knew exactly what I was looking for. Now, I have a website that works better than I thought it could for less than the cost -- and in half the time -- it would have taken other developers. Robert is as good as they come, a true professional -- anyone thinking of working with him, hire him. You won’t regret it.”

Matthew Bennett

CEO @ Winning Social LLC

“Dave as a developer was absolutely fantastic! The guidance that he provided us will allow us to make tremendous improvements to the next version of our application.”

Baroni Parson

IT Manager @ City Real Estate Advisors, Inc.

“Toptal understood our project needs immediately. We were matched with an exceptional freelancer from Argentina who, from Day 1, immersed himself in our industry, blended seamlessly with our team, understood our vision, and produced top-notch results. Toptal makes connecting with superior developers and programmers very easy.”

Jason Kulik

Co-Founder @ ProHatch

“I struggled for weeks with a Youtube API-specific problem and couldn't find anyone to solve it. Toptal immediately identified the right consultant who took the time to investigate the issue and resolve it quickly. The process was seamless and I will continue to use Toptal with any other issues that arise.”

Rohit Gupta

CEO @ Bollyshake

“The best talent is at Toptal for sure. It's way better and faster than any other means of getting top talent.”

Rajesh Nagarajan

Co-Founder & CTO @ maxmantra

“We had a great experience with Toptal. They paired us with the perfect developer for our application and made the process very easy. It was also easy to extend beyond the initial time frame, and we were able to keep the same contractor throughout our project. We definitely recommend Toptal for finding high quality talent quickly and seamlessly.”

Ryan Morrissey

CTO @ Applied Business Technologies, LLC

“Toptal has helped my business tremendously by finding, vetting, and recruiting the talent I need, at the right time. I’d definitely recommend it to others.”

Xavier Xicay

CEO & Creative Director @ Tuatara Corp

“FundedByMe needed to quickly scale our development team to create the equity crowdfunding leg of our operation. Working with a small budget, we couldn't spend time on vetting candidates, so we turned to Toptal. They identified a stellar developer that truly set the bar when it came to delivering product.”

Arno Smit

CTO @ FundedByMe.com

“We're a small firm with big dreams. After trying 4 or 5 local or outsourced developers, we were out of options. I'd heard of Toptal, but was worried that my company wasn't big enough for them. After calling them up, I found out that I didn't need to meet any minimum budget and was immediately put in touch with a developer to talk through my problems and goals. A day later, he got back to me with a list of possible solutions. After 9 months and 5 developers, Toptal got me my solution in a single week at a price I could afford.”

Kevin Ramirez

Co-Founder @ SixtyVocab.com

“One of their engineers from Colombia has joined our team as a full-time developer for more than 6 months, sometimes flying to work on-site in New York City with us. He is one of the best developers I've ever worked with.”

Carter Cleveland

CEO @ Artsy

“We really enjoy working with Toptal. The experience has been very positive, and we'd recommend it to anyone seeking developers on-demand.”

Jeff Kerr

CEO @ CaseFleet

“The Toptal process was very organized, personable, and professional. They get to know you and your project idea, and then quickly provide you with several of the world's best developers, who will work hard to achieve your vision. I found a great developer in only a few days and was able to turn my idea into a functional product.”

Ben Woratyla

CEO @ Book Swap

“Ignacio is one of the most diligent software developers that we have ever worked with—we feel like he's part of the family. He has always been flexible enough to work on our team's schedule and never misses deadlines. Toptal gets you the talent you need, on your timeline, keeping the process very low friction.”

Austin Evarts

CEO @ GoChime

“Our experience with Toptal was very good. We had an open ended development project when we got started and the programmer from Toptal was very helpful, working with us on everything from the top level outline all the way down to development and delivery of functioning code."
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Michael Milton

VP of Engineering @ SLANTRANGE

“In addition to sharp technical skills, Faruk had a great attitude and is a really exceptional communicator. He always let us know where he was with his work, thoroughly and reliably. That's not always the case, and it made working remotely considerably easier. He was an easy integration into the team. ”

Leif Abraham

Co-Founder @ AND CO Ventures Inc

“It has been wonderful to work with Fabian for the past two years. He is an expert in JavaScript development and has built our embeddable widget and video player. He is a quick study and is able to learn how to integrate new technologies, which is so critical for a startup. He even took the extra effort to teach others on the team. He is super responsive and often went above and beyond to help us meet deadlines (including working on weekends). Thank you Fabian. Thank you Toptal for making it so easy to find and work with amazing talent.”

Natasha Mohanty

CTO @ FEM Inc

“Working with Marcin is a joy. He is competent, professional, flexible, and extremely quick to understand what is required and how to implement it. ”